For each day I will post the best teams to pick your players from to help you all in getting your extra pass levels.

For tomorrow - August 15

There are 6 teams playing 3 matches while the rest are playing 2 or less. So in order to get points you should pick your players from either -
Mineski
EG
PSG LGD
VGJ Thunder
Liquid
or Invictus Gaming

Of these 6 teams PSG LGD and Liquid are probably your best bets while Invictus is probably the worst due to their tough matchups. You should pick based on what cards you have available and how their bonuses match the players' roles. For instance - don't be afraid to use a silver card instead of a gold for your Core position if the gold has stats like 'camps stacked' and 'wards planted' and the silver has 'kills' and 'GPM'. Likewise for if a different team's player card has better stats. Always try to avoid pos5 supports as they often have little impact outside of 'wards planted'.

Any questions feel free to PM me. This takes about an hour of my time each day to research so any donations should you find this service useful are gratefully received.

Good luck y'all and see you tomorrow.

This post was edited by Scaly on Aug 14 2018 06:18am

https://liquipedia.net/dota2/The_International/2018

Most of what you need ^^

what are the best stats to have in ur cards? gpm?

Thanks doto -

http://www.dota2.com/fantasy

You should be looking for stats that match the players' role. GPM and Kills are good for cores, as is creep score, whereas obs wards planted and camps stacked are good for supports.

So - Day 2, August 16th.

On the 16th there are only 5 teams playing 3 matches. Those teams are -
Newbee
TNC Predator
Secret
Optic
and Pain Gaming

Of these 5 teams I would try to avoid Pain Gaming. They're out of their league at TI and are gonna get smashed. TNC Predator aren't much better either. With that in mind any of the other 3 should do well enough to get you an ok score for the day. Secret are facing off against both virtus pro and pain gaming so have extremes of both hard and easy games meaning they likely will have less games overall making it probably best to choose your players from Optic and Newbee with Optic preferred out of the two.

Good luck everyone and see you tomorrow for advice on Day 3/ August 17th.

Day 3 -
IG
EG
OG
Wstrike
Liquid
Fnatic

Day 4 -
VP
Optic
Pain
VG
Secret
Serenity
VGJ.S


enjoy saving time OP

Day 3 - and 6 teams have 3 games, the rest 2, so choose your players from either -

OG
VGJ Thunder
Liquid
Fanatic
Invictus
or Winstrike

Winstrike are doing horribly, which makes me sad. But you should avoid them. Any other teams should be fine but Liquid and OG are your best bets. OG especially crushing it right now.



I appreciate the input but I'd rather do the research myself as I want to make sure it's correct and I'm glad I did because EG only have 2 games today and are therefore a bad bet.

This post was edited by Scaly on Aug 17 2018 09:34am

Day 4 - sorry for late post. It's been a rough day for me. Closes in 4 hours so get your cards sorted fast

Today there are less games overall so you won't get as high a score. Today most teams have only one match but seven teams have two matches. Those teams are -
Vici
VGJ Storm
Secret
Serenity
VP
and Pain Gaming

VGJ Storm and VP are pretty good here although they are playing eachother so if the match is one sided then you could end up with one of your picks profiting at the cost of another. Up to you to decide if it's worth the risk. Otherwise I would suggest picking your cards from one of those teams and filling any gaps with players from Secret.

Good luck. I'll post up Day 5 as soon as the matchups become known.

Addendum - Just wondering what people's averages are. I've got the highest score of my friends list with a total of 1187.09 or about 390 points a day. The top 100 are sitting around 1300-1400 which is about 450 points a day. So I'm doing pretty well following this method. What are your scores so far guys?

This post was edited by Scaly on Aug 18 2018 05:54am

e/ the 7th team I missed out of the list was Optic Gaming. They aren't doing terribly well atm so my advice remains the same.

Okidokie. Spreadsheets n stuff up. From here on out this is based on the likelihood of having most games and their scores so far.

Players you should pick for Day 1 of main event -

Cores -
Miracle
Ramzes
Noone
Somnus
ccnc
Ame
Pajkatt
Matumbaman

Offlane -
Mind Control
Pasha
33
Chalice

Supports -
Kuroky
Solo
xnova
Peterpandam
roger
fy
gh
Zai

Good luck. Will be back for day 2 of the main event.

This post was edited by Scaly on Aug 19 2018 10:23am